How to Find Windows 10 Update Logs and Read using PowerShell

With the release of Windows 10, Microsoft has changed the way, this operating system logs being created and then how to view them. Till now, we have been viewing Windows Logs of previous versions operating system in Windowsupdates.log file. However, this file is still present in Windows 10, but when you open it, it’ll not show you logs, rather you’ll find following information in it:

Now, the file WindowsUpdate.log generated using command Get-WindowsUpdate.log is a static file and we need to get it into terms of auto-updating, so that you don’t have to update the whole procedure of running the PowerShell again and again. To accomplish that, you can create a script using PowerShell which shall auto-update the log file with recent activities, so that you may could troubleshoot things in real-time if doing any.

For creating a script, commands in PowerShell could be something similar as below:

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